Unless you live in an apartment or rented building and your landlord controls your building’s temperature (and if that is the case, we really feel for you), understanding how your thermostat works is actually a very, very useful thing. We don’t mean just being able to turn on and off heating and air units with a thermostat — we mean really understanding how to use the thermostat to heat/cool your home efficiently and at the lowest cost possible. There are tons of new “smart” thermostats on the market these days that creepily detect when you’re home and which can be…
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Here’s the thing: if your backyard floods every now and again, you might not think much of it — especially if you don’t go out in your lawn often (hey, some people are allergic to the sun… it’s not that weird…) — but homes in flood prone areas that experience regular flooding are much more likely to have basement water damage. It’s fairly common to have yard drainage problems; if you live in a mountainous and rocky area that just repels the water or in a dry desert region with very flat landscapes, whether you live around soil that is…